Dasycladales are relatively abundant in the bedded limestones of the Bidestan and Howz-e Khan members of the Late Triassic Nayband Formation in central Iran. In a locality south of the town of Naybandan (northwest of Dig-e Rostam), several Rhaetian dasycladacean algae were found in thin sections. The following taxa are described: Diplopora phanerospora Pia, Naybandoporella rhaetica nov. gen. no...

The early Mesozoic is marked by several global-scale environmental events, including the emplacement of large igneous provinces, such as Siberian Traps, Wrangellia, and Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). These have been hypothesised drivers successful diversification Pan-Aves, lineage archosaurs closer to birds than crocodiles. We characterize here body size evolution terrestrial pan-av...

Regional geologic mapping in 1994 extended previous 150 000-scale mapping of the Tulsequah River mapsheet (104W12; Mihalynuk et a/.. 1994a, b) eastward into the Stuhini Creek map area (104Wl1, Figure 1). Approximately 20% of the Tulsequah River and 45% of the Stuhini Creek map sheets has been previously mapped as Upper Triassic Stuhini Group (Souther, 1971'). More recently, fossil and is...

The large dicynodont Eubrachiosaurus browni from the Upper Triassic Popo Agie Formation of Wyoming is redescribed. Eubrachiosaurus is a valid taxon that differs from Placerias hesternus, with which it was previously synonymized, by greater anteroposterior expansion of the scapula dorsally and a very large, nearly rectangular humeral ectepicondyle with a broad supinator process. Inclusion of Eub...

Triassic eclogite and blueschist facies rocks occur as a thrust sheet, 25-km long and over 2-km thick, in an Eocene fold-andthrust belt in northwest Turkey along the İzmir–Ankara suture. The thrust sheet consists mainly of metabasites with minor marble, phyllite and metachert, and rare lenses of serpentinite. The common blueschist facies mineral assemblage in the metabasites is sodic amphibole ...

The family Mesopanorpodidae is revised. Most taxa referred to this family are not related to the type genus Mesopanorpodes Tillyard, 1918. The type species of the latter, Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis,is closely related to Mesopsyche Tillyard, 1917. Therefore Mesopanorpodes is transferred to Mesopsychidae Tillyard, 1917 (= Mesopanorpodidae Tillyard, 1918, syn. n.).The earliest Mesopsychidae are...

The Krasiejów locality in the Upper Triassic of southern Poland yields the tetrapod taxa Cyclotosaurus robustus (= C. intermedius), Metoposaurus diagnosticus (we reject proposed subspecies of this species), Stagonolepis robertsoni, Teratosaurus suevicus (= T. silesiacus), Parasuchus bransoni and Silesaurus opolensis. The occurrences of Parasuchus and Metoposaurus indicate the Krasiejów assembla...

Early Triassic animal body fossils and trace fossils are small relative to those in older and younger intervals. Size decreases sharply through the end-Permian extinction event and Permian/Triassic boundary, and the smallest sizes are encountered in the parvus and isarcica Zones of the earliest Induan. Animals appearing within these two zones are also exceedingly small, compared to younger cong...

The Triassic was a turning in the history of biodiversity: bracketed by two major biotic crises, characterised biotic, climatic and tectonic events, it saw transition from Palaeozoic to Modern evolutionary faunas. Herein, we propose first synthetic analysis diversity marine brackish-water ostracods over entire Triassic, light palaeoecological, palaeoenvironmental palaeogeographical contexts. Al...

Upper Triassic rocks in northwestern Argentina preserve the most complete record of dinosaurs before their rise to dominance in the Early Jurassic. Here, we describe a previously unidentified basal theropod, reassess its contemporary Eoraptor as a basal sauropodomorph, divide the faunal record of the Ischigualasto Formation with biozones, and bracket the formation with (40)Ar/(39)Ar ages. Some ...